From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 21:39:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B731065670 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:39:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com) Received: from bostonserver.studsvik-analytic.com (firewall.studsvik-analytic.com [155.212.59.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F768FC18 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:39:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com) Received: from [192.168.169.115] (eddie [192.168.169.115]) by bostonserver.studsvik-analytic.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id mBILHNfv017015; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:17:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:25:51 -0500 From: Patrick Baldwin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Cc: Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com Subject: Suitability question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:39:43 -0000 Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is of limited usefulness here. I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower 617-965-7455